Word: leumi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chink in the wall of soldiers and a way out of Tel Aviv. British troops made widespread searches for terrorists, collared many in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem who were merely terrorized. The Jews managed sly smiles at a British announcement that 25 "known members of the extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang had been taken during "Operation Hippo" (the Army's designation for its application of martial law). Said Tel Avivians: "Hippo labored and brought forth a mouse...
...Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi...
Offense. In Palestine, the Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi ("Liberation Army") thought about the pipeline, blasted it apart in two places. That was a signal for renewed terror; four British soldiers were wounded in other incidents. Palestinians and Britons feared that they were in for another twelve months of bitterness and tension until U.N. acted...
...Gale, the newly appointed Military Governor of Tel Aviv, said the main objective of the marital law decree was to "paralyze and eradicate" the Stern Gang and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground resistance groups...
...Bela Gruner's lawyer last week told him that his ?120 bonus check for five and a half years' service with the British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...